@getsafaripaws: Meet the baby aardwolf, one of Africa’s most unusual little animals. 🥹🐾 With its striped coat, fluffy mane and pointed face, you might mistake it for a tiny hyena. And there’s actually a good reason for that. Aardwolves belong to the hyena family, but their lifestyle is very different from their larger relatives. When night falls, they emerge to search for their favourite meal: termites. 🐜 Using a long, sticky tongue, an aardwolf can consume huge numbers of them in a single night. Instead of powerful jaws for taking down large prey, they’ve evolved to become highly specialised insect eaters. And those enormous ears help them detect sounds around them while staying alert in the darkness. 👂 Basically, it’s the adorable little cousin of the hyena that decided termites were much easier to deal with. 😂❤️

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